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As I record this episode, the news is full of a major winter storm forecast. And by the time you’re listening, you already know what happened. That’s the doorway into today’s real topic.

Because storms reveal something deeper. The forecast can steal your peace before anything happens. The fear of the future can rob your present joy. And the fear of the past can do it too.

In this short solo episode, I give you a practical tool you can use in real storms and mental storms. Control, Influence, Release. This is how you shift from anxious energy to grounded energy and create your next success from where you actually have power.

In this episode, you’ll learn

• How to sort any stressor into control, influence, or release
• The Control Filter that calms your nervous system quickly
• The difference between preparing and rehearsing
• How this applies to career uncertainty and feeling miserable at work
• A 30 second reset you can use anytime

If you want to go deeper and assess how much your mind is working for you versus against you, email me. I’ll send you two free assessments and invite you to a one on one call to talk through what you learn and what it means for your next success.
Email: caroline@nextsuccesscareers.comor access the assessments and scheduling now at https://nextsuccesscareers.com/mental-fitness

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What happens when a chemist and lifelong martial artist decides to fix his business finances like a lab experiment?

In this episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with with Dr. Dan Bamper, a PhD chemist, teacher, martial artist, and Profit Coach who now serves as a fractional CFO for 7 figure contractors and trades business owners.

Dan shares how an eight year PhD journey, burnout in grad school, a 270 student martial arts school, and a high level role at a nuclear waste repository all led to his current work. Along the way, he discovered that the same skills that helped him run complex experiments could be used to read financial data, build systems, and help business owners finally see where their money is going.

You will hear how he scaled his own dojo by roughly 150 thousand dollars in a year, why he left a secure government job, and how he now helps business owners keep more of the money they make without endless hustle.

In this episode, you will learn:

• How martial arts shaped Dan’s mindset around discipline, perseverance, and leadership
• The reality of grad school burnout and how returning to martial arts helped him reconnect with his own power
• What he learned inside the Department of Energy working on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and how that sharpened his systems thinking
• How he turned a bookkeeping side hustle into Black Belt Ledgers and began helping 7 figure contractors add six figures in profit
• The simple metrics he tracks so owners can stop guessing and start making data informed decisions

Connect with Dan - Join Dan’s free Skool community for business owners who want to get clear on their numbers and build profit driven systems:
https://www.skool.com/chief-financial-you

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What happens when life keeps shifting the path beneath your feet?

In this episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with Jake Isaacs, Serial Integrator and Co-Founder of Gathering The Kings as he shares the turning points that shaped his leadership, his resilience, and his definition of success.

We explore:

• How constant childhood moves shaped his adaptability
• The cost of high performance when relationships and well-being are left behind
• The wake-up calls that led him to rebuild his life more than once
• How he now guides entrepreneurs toward clarity, structure, and healthier success

If you’ve ever felt pulled toward a different chapter or sensed that something in your life needed realignment, this conversation offers perspective, encouragement, and a grounded path forward.

Connect with Jake: https://gatheringthekings.com/

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Have you ever woken up ready to follow through, and by the end of the day your goal feels far away? That experience holds a message. Your system responds to real life, real pressure, and real emotions.

In this solo action episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal helps you connect to the deeper why underneath your goals so you move with staying power, even when the calendar tightens and your energy shifts.

You’ll learn a simple way to notice which inner voice is leading, and you’ll practice a fast reset that brings you back into alignment so your next step stays available.

Highlights

• How your why creates staying power when emotions shift
• Two inner voices and how to lead from the steady one
• Seven why starters that help you name what matters most
• A 10 second reset that brings you back to the next step
• One aligned action that builds resilience in real life

Listen to the prior episode on mental fitness here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2446588/episodes/17358235

or watch here: https://youtu.be/2r4YE85-vzU?si=swVfyd3-OWsisykp

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What happens when the career you built and the values you hold collide?

In this episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with Bob Martin, former federal prosecutor turned meditation teacher. Bob’s years handling mob-related cases in Miami brought intense pressure, moral complexity, and moments that forced him to question the life he was living. His wake-up call became the doorway to a radically different chapter — one grounded in meditation, integrity, and inner clarity.

Inside this episode:

• The hidden emotional toll of high-stakes legal work
• The moral line Bob refused to cross — and what it awakened in him
• How meditation became his path to agency and peace
• Why clarity often begins where identity unravels
• The practices that help rebuild purpose from the inside out

Explore Bob’s work → https://awiseandhappylife.com
Explore Caroline’s work → https://nextsuccesscareers.com

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Some say life will knock you down. Sometimes it knocks you down twice.

Dan MacQueen’s story began with persistent headaches that seemed like an annoying problem, until they became impossible to ignore. An optometrist visit led to a sealed envelope and a direct trip to the hospital. What followed was emergency brain surgery, a brain hemorrhage, weeks in a coma, and months of rehab where Dan had to relearn how to walk, talk, and smile.

Today, Dan is a keynote speaker and storyteller who helps teams reframe setbacks, shift perspective, and become better than yesterday through practical, action oriented life hacks.

In this episode, Dan shares the mindset shifts that helped him rebuild after two brain surgeries—and how you can apply them right now.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• How a “minor” symptom turned into a sealed envelope, a hospital, and a life changing medical crisis
• The mindset shift that helped him move from shock to forward motion
• A perspective reframe that changed his experience of recovery without changing the environment
• Practical life hacks he uses to protect energy, stay organized, and keep momentum building

If you have ever wondered how people rebuild after the unthinkable, this episode is for you.

Visit https://www.macqueendan.com/ to learn more about Dan.

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We're adding some short episodes to help you start your week taking action towards your next success!

Buzzsprout sent me my 2025 podcast recap—31 episodes, 1,336 minutes, listeners in 47 countries and 376 cities, with 2,081 audio downloads. The numbers are fun… and they don’t tell the real story.

In this short solo episode, I share how I committed to an internet radio show in late 2024—invested, planned, lined up 13 guests—and then a business sale changed the trajectory. The platform shifted, the “network” restarted from zero, and I had to decide what to do next. That detour became the reason Your Next Success exists as a podcast today.

Reflection questions:

• What “didn’t work out” but created space for something better-aligned to emerge?
• If you treated the reroute as information, what is it telling you?
• What is one next right thing you can do in the next 24 hours that restores momentum?

If you’re in a reroute and want clarity on your next move, book a call with me at nextsuccesscareers.com. If this episode helped you, follow/subscribe and share it with someone who needs it.

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What happens when your life looks incredibly successful on paper, but inside, something feels off?

In this episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with Alan Lazaros, Founder and CEO of Next Level University, a global top 100 podcast with more than 2,200 episodes. Alan opens up about the patterns that shaped him as a young high achiever, the instability that drove his early ambition, and the wake-up call that shifted everything.

We explore:

• How early loss and upheaval shaped his drive
• The quiet exhaustion of being a “chameleon” achiever
• The head-on collision that became his turning point
• The three major phases of his journey
• How he now structures his days around clarity and purpose

If you’re a high achiever who looks successful but feels misaligned, this episode offers language, perspective, and hope for your next chapter.

To learn more about Alan and his work check out https://www.nextleveluniverse.com/ They offer everything from a free book club and monthly masterclass to paid group and individual coaching programs.

And, of course, remember to subscribe, share, and explore more at nextsuccesscareers.com.

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